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<a href="B45C012.html">12</a>
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<td class="v">11:1</td>
<td>I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.</td>
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<td class="v">11:2</td>
<td>God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. Wot ye not what the scripture saith of Elias? how he maketh intercession to God against Israel, saying,</td>
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<td class="v">11:3</td>
<td>Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life.</td>
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<td class="v">11:4</td>
<td>But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal.</td>
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<td class="v">11:5</td>
<td>Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.</td>
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<td class="v">11:6</td>
<td>And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.</td>
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<td class="v">11:7</td>
<td>What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for; but the election hath obtained it, and the rest were blinded.</td>
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<td class="v">11:8</td>
<td>(According as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear;) unto this day.</td>
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<td class="v">11:9</td>
<td>And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompence unto them:</td>
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<td class="v">11:10</td>
<td>Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back alway.</td>
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<td class="v">11:11</td>
<td>I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy.</td>
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<td class="v">11:12</td>
<td>Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness?</td>
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<td class="v">11:13</td>
<td>For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office:</td>
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<td class="v">11:14</td>
<td>If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are my flesh, and might save some of them.</td>
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<td class="v">11:15</td>
<td>For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?</td>
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<td class="v">11:16</td>
<td>For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.</td>
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<td class="v">11:17</td>
<td>And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree;</td>
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<td class="v">11:18</td>
<td>Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.</td>
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<td class="v">11:19</td>
<td>Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in.</td>
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<td class="v">11:20</td>
<td>Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear:</td>
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<td class="v">11:21</td>
<td>For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee.</td>
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<td class="v">11:22</td>
<td>Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.</td>
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<td class="v">11:23</td>
<td>And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be graffed in: for God is able to graff them in again.</td>
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<td class="v">11:24</td>
<td>For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be graffed into their own olive tree?</td>
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<td class="v">11:25</td>
<td>For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.</td>
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<td class="v">11:26</td>
<td>And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:</td>
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<td class="v">11:27</td>
<td>For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.</td>
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<td class="v">11:28</td>
<td>As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers' sakes.</td>
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<td class="v">11:29</td>
<td>For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.</td>
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<td class="v">11:30</td>
<td>For as ye in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief:</td>
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<td class="v">11:31</td>
<td>Even so have these also now not believed, that through your mercy they also may obtain mercy.</td>
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<td class="v">11:32</td>
<td>For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all.</td>
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<td class="v">11:33</td>
<td>O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!</td>
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<td class="v">11:34</td>
<td>For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor?</td>
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<td class="v">11:35</td>
<td>Or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again?</td>
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<td class="v">11:36</td>
<td>For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen.</td>
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